shapley started his career with the irs in july 2009. he was detailed to the department of justice is tax division from 2013 to 2018 investigating foreign institutions. foreign financial institutions. he was also assigned to the joint terrorism task force working as an officer at the fti washington office in the fti baltimore office. mr. shapley was promoted to supervisory special agent of the elite i tfc group in 2018 he also served as assistant agent in charge of both the new york office and chicago is. i went to akin thank both gentlemen or their willingness to come forward and share their testimony today for the members of this committee for the american people. pursuant to committee rule 9g, the witnesses will please stand and raise their right hands. do you solemnly swear, affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record show that the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. we appreciate you being here today and we look forward to your testimon

is it the fbi or irs or something new? i know the american people are confused because we are all confused on what we are doing here. nothing this majority has claimed about the president or his family has merit and no wonder the folks back home are tuning out on this confused mess and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have shredded all their credibility in this committee and they simply grasp at straws that don't exist. in this congress so far, we held more hearings on gas stoves than gun violence and culture wars then kitchen table issues. let's talk about the real two- tiered justice system, one in which big corporations pollute the air we breathe and the big banks cause meltdowns with negligence and not one person is held criminally liable and they are certainly not called by the majority to sit before this committee or, mr. chairman, what if we talked about the other unspoken two- tiered justice system in this country, the one where people of color are subject to a deliberate the harsher system at every turn

i love the fact that we are so earned so much love with the irs. in fact, speaker mccarthy said, when he was elected on the 15th vote, that the first bill that he would repeal funding for was the bill that would provide for 87,000 additional irs employees. my, don't we love the irs? we're just gonna cut their budget. in fact, there's a number of this committee who on their own website said they are proud to have voted to strip away the plan to empower the irs with additional funding. so, i'm gonna get back to those two words again about keeping it real. i think we really have to do that. i just think, mr. shapley, two quick things. is hunter biden in any way, in your knowledge, not hunter, but did any of his children receive money, yes or no? >> i think agent ziegler would be. either one, yes or no. >> congressman, yet thank you for the question, i'm limited by the testimony by the statute. >> okay, we can turn owner over any of the records that relate to the adult children. >> yes. >> we'd like to see those. really, i would. we're gonna hear soon a

the irs works for yellen. the irs works for the president.0,000 up to 400,000, which is what the inspector general suggested, which you point out, which would make it all easier. the irs says we have no intention of doing that, and the word you mentioned, agility, means we can go after anyone we want, and you can't stop us. we already have our $60 billion so go away. elizabeth: we're so sorry to do this to you, grover, we've got breaking news coming in from special counsel jack smith. he's basically saying that the court should limit trump's public statements, that he would prejudice, be prejudicial toward a jury in, you know, i think it's the classified documents case. so what do you think of jack smith saying, you know what? we've got to limit trump's speech. >> well, there's a case going to the supreme court because biden9 and the fbi were mow-mowing social media people, telling them what they can and can't sa- elizabeth: i've got to correct myself. it's the election interference case. it's not the classified, it's the election interferenc

the white house on this effort. this is a disgrace. i urge any irs employees watching today, if you know of misconduct, please come to the ways and means committee so we can hold accountable those who are responsible. and let me be clear, there will be zero tolerance for any retaliation against whistleblowers by doj and the irs. the american people expect answers about whether the federal government is treating all taxpayers equally, or if the wealthy and politically connected getting special treatment. our committees are working together to get to the bottom of this abuse of power, and will work tirelessly to do so, and to make sure it doesn't ever happen again. americans should not have to accept to tears of justice in this country. one of your last name is biden, and one for everybody else. i want to thank both whistleblowers for coming forward publicly and for their testimony today. i yield to mr. jordan. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. the question is who will you believe? april 26th in front of the united states senate, the attorney gene

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and now we find out through the irs watchdog that the irs isn't going to be able to adhere to the pledge they made to ensure people making under $400,000 a year aren't subject to increase audits. under the guide of agility, they need agility in order to reach their funding goals for the funding of the irs. this is exactly the way we suggested was going to happen. all that money, all those irs agents start auditing people making less than $400,000 a year and it's another byproduct of biden economics. what have we gotten? increased audits, higher interest rates, crippling inflation, buying power lowered and depleted savings accounts. that's what we get. that is what the act ultimately yielded in terms of the outcome and result that many of us predicted. the word before us this week as the leader pointed out is to try to make sure we get the government funded so we get a normal appropriations process going where we can have the policy and the funding debates that we should be having through normal appropriations bills. they have anav opportunity and e amendment process to have their voices

why did the grandchildren get paid? if i were irsue and get the information. >> ainsley: average senator or vice president doesn't have a multi million dollar house on the beach. we went to chuck grassley's home in iowa and his home is very modest. >> sean: joe biden was not living the lifestyle. chuck grassley looked like a simple, humble home, duplex and works the farm in his spare time. impressive. age does not matter, look how sharp he is at 90. put it together and ask sfrm questions, none of it adds up. joe biden went out yesterday and tried to make a joke of the investigation. why do you have a war room? they are compliant and complicit anyway. >> brian: joe biden does not take questions and doesn't have press conferences, here is how he responds. >> brian: doesn't seem worried. >> sean: good luck, they are having a lot of luck. interesting thing, another development was kevin mccarthy was clear that hunter biden will be subpoenaed. if i had to guess knowing lowell as a top attorney, he will not let hunter biden say a word. he

the irs is not going to be able to adhere to the pledge that they made to ensure that people making under $400,000 a year aren't subject to increased audits under the guise of agility. they need agility in order to reach their funding goals for the irs. well, this is exactly what we suggested was going to happen. that ultimately all that money, all those new irs agents were going to start auditing people making less than $400,000 a year and it's another byproduct of biden nommics? we've got increased audits, higher interest rates, crippling inflation, lower buying power and depleted savings accounts. that's what we get with bidenomics, the inflation reduction act which many of us predicted. the work before us as the leader pointed out make sure we get the government funding so we get a normal appropriations process going where we can have the policies and funding debates we should have through know normal appropriateses. and through the amendment process to have their voices heard. >> well, the government is on the verge of a shutdown and the government is currently being operated using t

now we find out through the irs watchdog that the irs is not going to be able to adhere to pledges theyade to ensure that people making under former thousand dollars a year are subject to increased audits. under the guise of agility. they need agility to reach their funding goals for the irs. this is exactly what we suggested was going to happen. that ultimately, all those new, irs agents were going to audit people making less than $400,000 a year. it's another product of bidenomics. we have got increased audits, higher interest rates crippling inflation, more buying power in depleted savings accounts. that's what we get with bidenomics. that is what the inflation reduction act has yielded, which many of us predicted. the work before us this week as the leader pointed out is to make sure we get government-funded, so we get a normal appropriations process going where we can have a big policy and funding debates that we should be having their normal appropriation bill debates. not just members of the appropriations committee but our entire caucus has an opportunity through the amendment p

i mean, i hate the irs. can we do this, dana? wrote down hunter biden has entered the chat. you are welcome here. i'm trying to remember the irs lady that everybody was mad at. >> jeanine: lois learner. >> dana: remember the tea party conservatives, how dare you, and the irs goes after people. so this is exactly what conservatives have been talking about. the other thing that happened over the weekend is biden allies were sending smoke signals to the attorney general marek garland saying -- marrick garland saying, you better wrap this thing up quickly or else you'll lose favor with the president. >> greg: did they have liz warren translate the smoke signi signals? judge, should hunter sue his crack dealer for the crack he snorted? >> jeanine: yeah, because if you don't take responsibility for yourself, you have to blame somebody. that makes sense. look, the amazing part of it -- i was looking at the complaint. here's one of my favorite lines. he says, mr. biden has cooperated fully with the irs investigation. give me a break. tha

the irs has done this before. y at times, especially armed with potentially tens of thousands more agents. the cynics say here they go. revved up and ready to do a lot more. >> yeah, absolutely i agree. we need to hold our government accountable regardless of who the defendant is. that's the point of the system here. i think it raises valid questions and i think there needs to be processes that are followed when we talk about potential criminal matters or confidential or personal matters. i'm not sure in this case that hunter biden has a claim that is meritorious. the idea that these agents might be willy-nilly discussing things outside of allowable channels is in fact something that needs to be looked into closely. >> neil: i don't want to sound like a part of the black helicopter crowd here, katie. could this be an effort on the part of hunter biden and his lawyer to deflect additional charges that could be coming on the tax issues? keep them at the gun issues out there, the various charges that could land him in

liberty.♪ >> martha: hunter biden comes out swinging with a lawsuit of his own now against the irs. being hit with gun charges, the first time a sitting president's child has ever been indicted, hunter's lawyers claim the tax agency targeted and sought to embarrass hunter. the suit goes after the media coverage surrounding this blockbuster testimony by the irs agent and whistle-blowers in his case. >> the delaware u.s. attorney's office and department of justice handling the hunter biden tax investigation was very different from any other case in my 14 years at the irs. at every stage, decisions were made that benefitting the subject of this investigation. >> martha: hunter's lawyers say the whistle-blowers and their lawyers publicly disclosed and disseminated hunter's protected tax return information in violation of the law. matt taibbi that reported on the suppression of the hunter biden laptop story in the twitter files is standing by with his reaction to this. first to mark lytle, an attorney for gary shapley, statements that lytle made are included in this new lawsuit. good to

whistleblowers public and we will do that shortly this very important information that the two irswers have t given us in addition to their prior testimony into backup thel prior testimony and it's important for the american people t to see it along with te judiciary committee and thete oversighe.t committee. larry: mr. chairman, on that point i want to say hunter biden has nerve suing the irs for releasing personal information. as i listen to you you say the whistleblowers are doing their job and their duty. >> these whistleblowers arey brave, one thing about it p throughout the several months that have passed the white house story has changed numerous times but guess what the two irs whistleblowers have been consistent their stories have not changed and we subpoenaedha fbi agents andve irs agents in they came before us and they confirm testimony of the irs whistleblowers. you tell me these same lawyers are the same lawyers according to the ir whistleblower that told the department of justiceth prosecutors if they brought charges against the president'sd son they would face career

i mei mean, i hate the irs. can we do this dana?: that's what i said, i wrote red down, hunter biden ha entered the chat and you are welcome here the. i'm trying to remember the irs lady that everybody was mad at. >> judge jeanine: lois learner. >> dana: loi>>s learner thank yt very much. remember the tea party conservatives, they were how dare you the irs goes after ve peoples , this is exactly what conservatives have been talking about. the other thing happened over the weekenmoked biden allies we sending smoke signals to attorney general merrick garland saying there's some distance no- between biden and garland which garland should welcome which t send a signal you should with wrap this up quickly or else you lose favor with the president. >> greg: did they have liz warren translate the smoke h signals. judge should hunter sue the crack dealer for the crack he e snorted. >> judge jeanine: yeah, because if you don't take responsibility foyor yourself, you have to blas somebody. that makes sense. look, the amazing part of it, i was

going after those with the money. irsouncing the historic effort to restore fairness to the tax system. using funding from the inflation reduction act and the a.i. technology tools. irs announced a crackdown on the wealthy tax evaders. dom, first, it targets 1,600 millionaires owing $250,000 or more in unpaid recognized tax debt. taxes they agree they oh, but have to the paid. secondly, using a.i. and machine learning to target the 75 largest partnerships in the u.s., hedge funds, real estate partnerships, law firms and others, that have an average of more than $10 billion of assets. the goal is to find errors which were too complex for the limited staff of the irs. and starting next month, they will send letters to 500 other large partnerships that have the discrepancies to point to underreporting of income. those earning $10 million a year has fallen from i21% to 4%. the rate is still eight times higher than the overall tax base. the commissioner explained no one making less than $400,000 a year will see increased audit

you were the one who broke the story with the irs whistleblowers. g and today, but. do you want to speak to the issue of what is going on who will come before your committee or old that? >> i would be happy to, we have been involved in this process since june. when we released the two irs whistleblowers testimony on june 22, over 15 hours of interviews, since that point the two irs whistleblowers have given us additional documents that we're reviewing rights right new, we'll set in the process under federal law called 61 inju03. we have to make it public through an executive session that is how we made 15 hours of testimony public. we'll do that shortly because there are some very important information that the two irs whistleblowers have give inus in addition to the prior testimony and to back up their prior testimony. it is important for the american people to see it, along with the judiciary committee and oversight commicommittee. larry: mr. chairman on that point, i want to say hunter biden has some nerve suings irs for releasing personal informa

we've been involved in this process since june when we released the two irs whistle-blowers testimony >> which was over 15 hours of interviews. since that point the two irs whistle-blowers has given us additional documents that we're reviewing right know and we're going to set in the process which under federal law it is called 6103 that when there is private taxpayer information we have to make that public through an executive session. that is how we made the 15 hours of testimony of the two irs whistle-blowers public, we'll be doing that shortly because there is some very important information that these two irs whistle-blowers have give enus in addition to their prior testimony, to back up their prior testimony. so it is important for the american people to see it, alongwith the judiciary committee and the oversight committee. larry: so, mr. chairman, on that point, i want to say hunter biden's got some nerve suing the irs for releasing personal information. as i listen to you, you're saying these whistle-blowers are actually doing their job and their duty? >> yeah. these whistle-b

the irs agents conducting the case. in my view, the folks running the nuts and bolts of the tax fraud case. they are learning about all this information and being denied access to it. meanwhile, the media is actively working to suppress that and at the same time 51 national security officials signed onto a letter saying the fbi has authenticated saying it is russian disinformation. this is my view. joe biden's son, what is important to note many of my colleagues try to make this about race and saying there is a two-tiered justice system for black and brown people. yet we are investigating, according to their terms, a man of white privilege who is being aided and abetted by this administration and being criminally covered for by the department of justice and yet somehow that is not supposed to be a topic of discussion. i have 41 seconds left, would you like to say anything for the record the american people so they can know what is really happening in this country? >> i have something. there are two things. i believe tha

i also want to thank our partners at the irs for their assistance in this investigation. i want to thank our colleagues from around the department of justice who are far too many to name here and to thank specifically but they have also been invaluable. and of course i want to thank the career prosecutors from my office who are handling this investigation they have done tremendous work eli mark laura pomeranz dan richenthal paul monteleone and their supervisors rebecca donnelleski and maureen comey the chiefs of our office's public corruption unit i now want to invite up to the podium fbi assistant director in charge james smith. >> good morning so i'm not going to go any further into the case as u.s attorney damian williams explained but what i want to talk about more or less is hey the fbi's public corruption excuse me the fbi investigating public corruption is one of our top priorities and we will continue to investigate public corruption cases. i want to thank the agents the team over here from the fbi the irs for their hard work into this investigation they've spent m

this comes the day after hunter biden and his attorneys filed a lawsuit against the irs accusing the cy and its agents of illegally releasing his tax information. i'm joined by another irs whistleblower who has testified under oath before congress, joseph ziegler who is been ott show before. so you were here on the lead back on july 20th, the day after you and gary shapely testified before the house oversight committee. and this week hunter biden and his attorneys filed a lawsuit against the irs claiming that the irs improperly released hunter biden's confidential tax information and the lawsuit mentioned you by name, in a july 20th, 2023 interview, mr. ziegler alleged for the first time publicly that he recommended felony and misdemeanor charges for mr. biden for tax year 2017. let's roll that part of the interview. >> do you know of criminal charges against hunter biden that were not filed that definitively there is evidence, prove that they should be filed that he should be facing justice for? >> so, again, meeting with the attorney, assigned attorneys, and that includes department

what does that mean for him and the irs? tuned for an exclusive interview with actor, director sean penn and this is a follow-up interview to the one we had previously about the issue of ukraine. he spent a lot of time there. more terrible polls for joe biden, more panic for his fellow democrats who are begging him to retire for it 2024 donald trump would beat joe biden in a hypothetical matchup according to a cbs poll. trump even it gets to that all-important 50% threshold. biden is more unpopular than ever. a look at this number, 72% think that biden is not physically healthy enough to be president. only 34% believe that biden can actually finish the second term before resigning or dying. joe biden he himself does not even seem to think that he will outlive his son's legal woes according to nbc news. "president has lamented aloud that he might be dead before his son's case is resolved." biden's allies are worried that hunters ident meant will strain at between 24 focus. wet focus. they are terrified about the impeachment a

hunter biden has sued the irs alleging the agents of the irs illegally released his tax information and failed to protect his privacy. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan polantz joins us now. this is a really fascinating turn after the plea deal that was in part about taxes fell apart. does he have a case here? >> reporter: phil and poppy, he's certainly on the offensive. hunter biden is going into court against the irs. there were two special agents within the irs who became whistleblowers for congress earlier this year. and he says that those two irs agents who had been working on his tax investigation over many years, that did ultimately result in him trying to make a guilty plea to a misdemeanor and that plea deal falling apart, he's saying those two agents essentially went out and did interviews at a point in time when they shouldn't have been talking about his tax returns, and his lawyers and hunter biden's lawyers are alleging that they disclosed quite a lot about hunter biden's tax returns, what he had not been paying, the tax years that were under investigation, also

agents, 87,000 irs agents, and at the time republicans offer amendment led by senator kraple to not force less than 400,000 per year. every single democrat voted against that amendment. and now we find out through the irs watch dog that the irs is not going to be able to adhere to the pledge they made to ensure that people making under $400,000 a year aren't subject to increased audits under guys of agility they need agility to reach funding goals -- for the irs, well this is exactly what we suggested was geng to happen. then ultimately all of that money, all of those new irs agents start auditing people making less than 400,000 dollars a year and it is another by-product of bidenomics we've got increased audits we have higher interest rates. crippling inflation, lower buying power and depleted savings accounts that's what we get with bidenomics that's what the inflation reduction act yields in outcome of result which many of us predicted. work before us is the leader pointed out is to try to make sure question get govern

and with respect to what the irs whistleblowers, the two initial ones testified, i believe them. r stories never changed, but weiss' story has changed many times about merrick garland's level of involvement. now we have two more irs whistleblowers that have come forward to verify what the initial two whistleblowers testifieded, and i think that tomorrow the ways and means committee's going to release some more evidence that the9 whistleblowers dropped off to the ways and means committee. so we'll be talking about that at our hearing on friday. there certainly has been a cover-up. and it's not just with david weiss' investigation of the biden family, it's also with the national archives, it's the with the fbi. you know, we found the 1023 form that alleged joe biden took a bribe. well, no one investigated that. [audio difficulty] testified they were told to stand down. then you've got a situation with the national archives, the general counsel testified in a transcribed interview that he was told not to cooperate with our committee. all of these things are happening by someone at th

>> we've been told his taxes were paid, that the irs declared he owed. e taxes that he owed was on the w2 from burisma but what the irs whistle-blowers testified, larry, you understand this, the financially illiterate media does not, all those shell companies, all those 20 plus million dollars from the shell companies took in, they never paid any taxes on those. so his tax liability is significantly more than what he settled for. now it's my understanding that beverly hills lawyer made him current with the irs. that may not be true. that is just what i was told but at the end of the day was on the w2. no one's ever paid taxes on the, money that went through the shell companies and you're talking about, we found over $20 million thus far. so you can do the math and see what he owes. the bidens owe a lot more money than what he was initially hit with by the irs. larry: well, mr. chairman, the headline of this is, hunter biden vulnerable to federal charges for unpaid taxes from his million dollar a year job in ukraine, and i just want to see somebody run tha

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the irs is going to do what they're going to do in work with the doj prosecutors, those special prosecutors. then we're going to give irs something to on. i'm going to sue you for violating those privacy law that says you can't disclose the stuff. on the other hand you have the irs protocol, the doj protocols, before they disclosed it to congress under the subpoena, under this lever that they were submitting to, they had to know that they were protected and it had to be cleared by the irs. but, abbe lowell is a really aggressive white-collar criminal defense lawyer and litigator, and he's going to fight to the very end. he is going to give hunter biden every bit of a fight that he needs, deserves, and can't afford. >> the best defenses offense, they say. there you go scott bolden, jaffer, thank you very much for both of you. coming up, president biden tonight touting his experience as a rebuttal to all of the many questions about his age. the question is, though, what do voters think? what california governor gavin newsom weighs in, a cnn exclusive interview with our own dana bash. (dad) we

the irs agents conduct in the case. mind, you the folks running the nuts and bolts of this tax fraud case. they're learning about all this information, and yet at the same time there denied access to it. meanwhile, the media is actively working to suppress that. at the same, time 51 national security officials plan signed on to a letter saying that the fbi, the fbi has authenticated russian disinformation. mind, to joe biden's son, which i think is important to note that many of my colleagues try to make this about race, there's a two tiered justice system for black and brown people. yet, we are investigating, according to their, terms a man of white privilege who is being aided and abetted by this administration and being criminally covered for by the apartment of justice and yet somehow that's not supposed to be a topic of the session. i have 41 seconds. left would you like to say anything for the record for the american people so they would know what's really happening? >> i have something. there's two things. i beli

. >>> hunter biden now suing the irs. president's son says agents illegally released his personal information. he claims the agency failed to protect his private records. >>> plus, a former department of justice official and donald trump ally asking a federal judge to move his georgia election subversion case to federal court. how the judge is now reacting. we are following thinks major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn "news central." ♪ ♪ >>> here in a few hours five americans who were wrongfully detained in iran will be back on u.s. soil for the first time in years. their plane in the air as we speak. it left from qatar a bit ago and president biden has spoken to each of their families, families that soon will be reunited with loved ones in washington after so long. these are the five u.s. citizens who are freed. two have not been publicly named. as part of the deal five iranian nationals were released by the u.s., and $6 billion in iranian funds were made available strictly for humanitarian use. bertrand

they are the ones that the irs is always after. if you were to able to get them, corner them and slam them hard, these are the very people, david, that make our economy so much better than any other economy in the world. the rich are not just rich. these are the most productive, the most high-performing developers and incentivizers and creators in the world. why america is the greatest nation on earth is because of these rich people. they are the reason for us being great and anything it would do to cause them to diminish their efforts will diminish the economy and diminish our prosperity as far as the eye can see. that is my story, david, i will stick to it. david: you will stick to it. even if you if you buy you have to slam the rich in order to get more tax revenue, listen to this, in july the irs was bragging they collected an extra $36 million. that is million with an m by the way, not a b. 36 million. that is .0001% of our deficit and they're, do you really have bragging rights for something like that when all you get is 36 mi

based on what you just told us about not really seeing a case here at the irs, is it safe to say thatbiden won't get in the way of the republicans' investigation? >> no, no, it won't. it's -- hunter biden is screaming at an approaching storm. it's not going to change its course. the fact is that the house has an obligation to see where this evidence goes. impeachment inquiry is that, it's an inquiry, it's not an actual impeachment. this may or may not lead to an impeachment. but even the polling is showing that the public believes that joe biden was involved in this influence peddling. we have to find out. that's the constitutional function of congress. and they are going to pursue that money trail and i think it's going to increase in speed as we go forward now because an inquiry is being conducted. >> sandra: all really important stuff. good to get you on all of that, jonathan. thank you so much. >> john: sandra, this is terrible. a gruesome hit-and-run claims the life of a retired police chief, it's all caught on video recorded by the people who allegedly did it. police now hunting

the rich, once these irs agents are skilled, know how to do it, they will hire the very best of thosethal complained about in the 1930s when income tax rates were very, very high. the rich have the best people they can around the place by far. they have the best right now. now last thing here is, the rich know how to get around this because they're really highly sensitized, incentivized to get around it. they are the ones the irs is always after and when you think about it, if you were able to get them and corner them and slam them hard, these are the very people, david, that make our economy so much better than any other economy in the world. the rich are not just rich. these are the most productive, most, high-performing developers and incentivizers creators ever in the world. that is why america is the greatest nation on earth is because of these rich people. they are the reason for us being great. anything that would do to cause them to diminish their efforts will diminish the economy and diminish our prosperity for as far as the eye can see. that is my story, david, and i am goin

the irs has used its billions in new congressional funding in an interesting way. attery of new ai tools and they are launching a new crackdown on the wealthiest tax evaders. robert frank is here to discuss those details. >> the new irs commissioner, his goal here was first let's use all this money to help the service part of our business, help people who, you know, want help paying their taxes, understanding what they need to do. now we're at phase 2, which is go after wealthy tax cheats. and what they're doing is putting a lot of that money, number one, to enforcers. they're going to hire tens of thousands of auditors and enforcers. but number two is develop ai machine learning to figure out what patterns they can find in tax returns, especially for these large partnerships that can help them identify where people are hiding their income. and that's where an agency not known for its technological prowess is going to really make a step change. and i think this is a part where ai really can do some good because ai is great at these massive data questions and huge co

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bad blood between the irs and those who resold tickets to seiler swift's tour, the new role that could end up costing resellers. i packed our ahead. let's get right to it. welcome to the show. i am ashley webster in for neil cavuto. president biden expect to join striking autoworkers on the picket line. we have the latest as we wait for the president. >> reporter: he's coming. we don't know quite -- he is coming here or hereabouts. you report correctly. it will be a historic visit. never been a sitting president who has joined a picket line. the white house has been trumpeting if that. we should point out president biden says he is the most pro-union president ever. i make an argument the most pro-union president ever is the most antiunion president ever. president reagan, president of the screen actors guild who started the strike against hollywood studios in the 50s and then almost single-handedly broke the air traffic controllers strike in the 1980s. that's "my take" on that one. biden leaving to join with john fain, they will walk a picket line somewhere. local media reporting this

tell the irs to get off these people's backs. that is the way stubhub works.sell them. my favorite part is only congress would come up with the red tape reduction act, which puts it at $10,000, right in the middle. i think if you have a business, you have a business, if not, you don't. >> jessica: taylor swift herself has come out herself, when the system crashed, people really preyed upon young fans. >> jeanine: here is the thing. the idea that you are going to go after americans for $600, starting with the venmo last year, wasn't it venmo, and now it is if you sell a ticket for $600 -- it's almost like we want -- if it is $600, we want to know if you are selling. isn't this the party that was going after billionaires who don't pay their fair share? i mean, leave middle america alone. i'm not so sure it is really about the inability to get tickets as opposed to making sure they crush in middle america who just decided they sell their ticket. >> jessica: greg, how do you feel about this? >> greg: you know what? i'm okay with this. i would ask the irs committed

members could renew old funding on a temporary basis to avert a shutdown that could draw the ire of theht. mccarthy says he is not worried that opponents could try to remove him as speaker. john? >> a lot of rhetoric being thrown there on capitol hill. chad pergram on capitol hill. >> john: hunter biden is suing the irs over the release of his tax records. the president's son is facing the prospect of being charged for tax crimes and other violations relating to his business affairs. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight and has the latest from there for us. david? >> hi, john, good evening. hunter biden is going on the offense just days after he was indicted on three felony counts for owning a gun back in 2018. this suit specifically takes aim at the two irs whistleblowers who sounded the alarm about his tax case. hunter biden's attorney abbe lowell also making the claim today in a separate letter to congress that hunter biden is actually owed a refund for overpaying his taxes. the lawsuit challenges whether the two irs whistleblowers should even be considered

there are -- the problem is getting the irs to revisit that decision because they don't want to go backanging their view. but, you know, jake, yesterday or the day before there was a decision in the united kingdom where scientology has been fighting for 25 or more years to try and get tax-exempt status, and they require you prove that you are providing a public benefit, which i wish that law existed in the united states. scientology has been unable to prove it and finally got struck down on appeal the final time. they're done. they cannot ever prove that they provide a public benefit. >> leah, last month as you noted you filed suit against the church of scientology claiming you suffered years of harassment, intimidation, defamation as part of an organized campaign of retaliation for your public criticism of the church since leaving it a decade ago. it sounds like you have really experienced a hellish time. >> yes. but the lawsuit is really -- i have filed a lawsuit. however, what i hope to achieve is that this procedure of fair game which is under thousands of policies, under this banne

so let's attack the irs whistleblowers. i thought democrats love . now the president, some believes he's been treated very unfairlwhistly by the u.s. government. now that his sweetheart plea deal has implode hid and what does mean this mean for him and the irsfo and other whistleblowers? and later, stay tuned for an a exclusive interview with actora director sean penn. this a follow up interview to the one we had previously about the issue of ukraine. he spent a lot of time there. but first, more terrible polls for joe biden, more panic from his fellowe poll democrats who o now begging him to retire. if the 2024 race were held today, donald trump would a joe biden in a hypothetical match up. according to a new cbs poll. it even beat kamala harris by more. but trum cbs polp even gets to t all important 50% threshold. biden, meanwhile, is more unpopular than ever. look at this number,a look 72% k that biden is not physically healthy enough to be president. he's not. only 34% believe that biden coul.ve thad actually finish a d term before resigning or dy

but, clearly, they are part of the substance of the argument against the irs. >> yeah. s of the whistleblower protection. i was appointed by president biden to the -- systems protection board, which protects whistleblowers, like those in the irs. and those protections apply across the government. what made this case unique was that these whistleblowers had special confidential taxpayer information. and that is governed by a more specific law that when the whistleblower protection act i dealt with on the -- board. that statute, written by congress, gives congress the authority to receive that information and, if it choose, to release it, like it did with president trump's tax returns less than a year ago. so, the whistleblower's here did not share this information in any way outside of that confidential process with congress. once congress made the decision to release it, that is public information. and so, they have spoken about that since then, just like any private citizen could. >> an important point to raise. and, of course, it wasn't, from my understanding, -- the f

the irs, his father's irs, has not responded to the lawsuit. >> todd: bring in former fbi director andey chris swecker. they did everything by the book, character, integrity is unimpeachable. so why would they bring a lawsuit like this other than intimidation? >> you nailed it, it is rank intimidation. they know there are other whistleblowers out there. they want to deter others from coming forward. when you juxtapose a criminal and civil case and open things up in the discovery process and hunter biden has a lot to hide. i think he enjoys being in the spotlight here. there may be a side motive, as well, to make it look like any future indictment by the irs or based on irs investigation is retaliation for this lawsuit, which nothing can be further from the truth. whole pan of things coming out of this and it will guarantee hunter biden stays in the public psyche and spotlight. >> carley: interesting turn of events. his attorney says he deserves to be treated like everybody else and the whistleblowers are saying, that is our point, he wasn't being treated like everybody else, that is wh

the irs whistle-blower who alleges there was some political interference in the federal investigationer biden's taxes. joining me now is tristan leavitt. he is an attorney for irs whistle-blower gary shapley. thank you so much for being here tonight. this is continuing to be a very big story, and i'm glad to have your insight in particular. you've obviously heard, tristan, that there are new witnesses throughout that are now rebutting two of the key contentions made by your client about david weiss, that he said he was, quote, not the deciding person, and that he was denied a request for special counsel status. what's your response to these different recollections? >> first off, to be clear, out of those new interviewees, the only one who took notes was special agent shapley's immediate supervisor. he's said he has long since shredded those notes, but his con comment was you covered it all. he acknowledged if he thought he was lying or misleading he definitely would have corrected that with his supervisor. from the substance, there are two key points i think are important. the first i

. >> still to come, the irs launching a new crackdown on wealthy tax evaders with the help of ai. >>> we have breaking news from qualcomm, stock's up about 7%. kristina partsinevelos joins us now with the details. good morning. >> i guess it is good, we're calling it a win for qualcomm. after much concern that apple was going to ditch qualcomm chips using its iphones. today we find out that's not the case. qualcomm announcing it will continue to provide apple's 5g mod dem chips. that's why you're seeing the stock react positively. apple is designing its own chip. it bought intel's modem chip business in 2019, but the fact that apple continues to partner with qualcomm for the next three years shows how tough it is to make those chips. at this point apple still hasn't figured it out at scale. popular supply analyst ming she quo suggesting the modem chips won't be ready for another two years. ubs statistics show androids like samsung contribute 54% of that pie. apple alone contributes 23% of total revenue. this announcement implies that revenue stream should continue for the next few